Sweeney does not want to contribute in any way towards making the steam deck more profitable.
I think he actually wants a monopoly. He wants to be, functionally, the only digital storefront on PC. And doing anything that could help Valve, even in another market, would detrimental to that goal.
I’m 100% neurotypical and and find that pretty much every community is just a bunch of relatable memes. ADHD, Autism, Bi-polar disorder, depression, etc.
Same thing with all the various sexual identities. I’ll call out bisexual people because I think most of them will admit it: they’ll take literally any behavior and appropriate it as a key element of bi culture. Lemon bars? Bi. Bad sitting posture? Bi. Cuffed jeans? Bi. Finger guns? You’re not a goofy sitcom character, you’re bi! Appropriating any innocuous behavior as part of your sexual identity’s culture? Bi!
I’ve got no problem with it. Anything for more good memes.
Yes they’ve had slim versions of course, but their performance/feature mix has been the same (or even worse) than the original. I’m not sure why you’re bringing them up? That’s been a part of the industry for longer than Sony has- Sega had 3 models of the Genesis, Nintendo had the top-loading NES, etc.
I’m also not sure what you’re referring to with the Apple marketing bandwagon. The word “Pro” has been used for consumer goods for decades. Off the top of my head I always think of Bass Pro shops. Apple is just one of many, many companies doing the same thing. And also that only applies to Playstation- Microsoft is using their X terminology. Although we will have to see if Microsoft decides to upgrade the Series X what the hell they’d call it (2x? XX?).
My apologies if I come off as rude, but I’m genuinely trying to figure out what you’re talking about here.
Traditionally, console makers like Sony and Microsoft often create a mid-cycle console refresh,
Am I tripping or did this only happen once each? Was there some PS3 Pro or Xbox 360X that I missed?
I’m not saying they aren’t going to do it again, but I wouldn’t call it a tradition just yet.
Edit: People I know there were slim versions and other variants of consoles. I’m talking about mid-generstion upgrades to performance. Like Nintendo handhelds: the New 3DS and Gameboy Color would be reasonable examples. There’s some things you can stretch: the N64 memory pack, the Sega tower of power.
The PS4 has an HDD, and only partway through its life upgraded from SATA2 to SATA3 even.
Personally, I’ve got my boot drive, plus a 2TB SATA3 SSD for games that benefit from it’s plus a 12TB HDD for the vast majority of games that don’t need it (or to temporarily store games- it’s faster to move them between drives than re-doenload them). So if I was planning on playing this games hearing this from the devs would let me know I need to free up some SSD space.
Games keep getting bigger and bigger. This game is expected to be about 100GB, and that’s not uncommon for modern AAA games. The CoD games have been over 200GB for a while now. Previous FF games have been similar size. RDR2 was 120GB.
I would expect most people playing FF16 on PC to have a small SSD drive with their OS, key programs, and maybe a couple of games, then a HDD for bulk storage.
I’m not interested in the FF series, but if I was this message from the devs means “clear up some space on your SSD”. Which can sometimes be an inconvenience.
TL;DW: your understanding is a simplification. It an assumption that allows educators to move past complex nuances when teaching about broader topics as part of a general education. Chromosomes and gene expression are a chaotic mess in reality.
I’m down voting not because it’s not funny, but because these jokes are too dangerous to dumb people.
The moon landing being faked, vaccines causing autism, the earth being flat, lizard people controlling the world. These jokes get a lot less funny when people actually start to believe them. There’s already enough “young earthers” out there voting without memes like this.
Without knowing the context of what drove OP to make this meme, my guess is they have some high and mighty idea for some sort of standard and someone else pointed out the XKCD comic is the most likely result.
I’ve been doing exactly this the past couple of weeks.
Also I’ve set up a JellyFin server to be able to access my backups. It takes so e tinkering with the folder structure and file names, but once I figured it out it does a pretty good job of scraping metadata. And it saves on the wear-and-tear on my optical drives only having to read each disc once.